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Lake stars and windshield cracks now forming over Alaska

...from small holes in the ice. This phenomenon inspired a geophysicist to figure out what he calls "lake stars.""I thought...perhaps the only paper in existence on lake stars. Tsai, a geophysicist with the Seismological Laboratory at the California Institute...

http://juneauempire.com/outdoors/2012-10-26/lake-stars-and-windshield-cracks-now
Outdoors
Minor lava flows detected on two Alaska volcanoes

...show the lava partly down a flank of Pavlof Volcano Tuesday in a low-level eruption 625 miles southwest of Anchorage. Geophysicist Dave Schneider says minor steam and ash emissions are visible from the community of Cold Bay 37 miles away.Pavlof is the...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-05-15
State
Budget cuts pare real-time monitoring of volcanoes

...for so long, we have no hope of actually addressing the Cleveland eruption in the way that it really should be," said geophysicist John Power, the USGS scientist in charge at the Alaska Volcano Observatory.A second Alaska volcano began heating up Monday...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-05-15/budget-cuts-pare-real-time-monitoring-v
State
Correction

An article on the cleanup of the old Tulsequah Chief mine site in British Columbia incorrectly identified David Chambers. He is a geophysicist and the president of the Center for Science in Public Participation, based in Bozeman, Mont.

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/102108/loc_346793130.shtml
State maps substantial strategic and critical mineral resources

...Critical mineral programs in Alaska drew $2.5 million in 2013 and the division requested $2.7 million for 2014.State geophysicists are also reanalyzing past data for signs of these currently vital minerals. They plan to continue with mapping and update...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-02-18/state-maps-substantial-strategic-and-cr
State
Officials lower volcano's status

...us comfortable with taking the volcano from color code red to orange," said Peter Cervelli, a U.S. Geological Survey geophysicist working at the Alaska Volcano Observatory. "That being said, the consensus is it is likely but not certain that further...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/011606/sta_20060116009.shtml
News
Aftershock: 6.2 quake off British Columbia coast

...the magnitude 7.7 quake that struck Saturday night. A geophysicist says the agency had no immediate reports that the latest...night quake was not expected to generate a tsunami.USGS geophysicist Susan Hoover in Golden, Colorado, says an even larger aftershock...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2012-10-29/aftershock-62-quake-british-columbia-co
Local
Visualization technology helps oil companies target oil better

...Alaska headquarters, petroleum engineers, geologists and geophysicists are using sophisticated 3-D visualization technology to...650,000 in computer and projection technology. Inside, geophysicist Stephen Lewis manipulates a computer-generated seismic...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/103100/Biz_3DOil.html
Business
Wind kicks up 100-year-old volcanic ash

...recorded history - 10 times more powerful than the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington.Dave Schneider, a geophysicist with the Alaska Volcano Observatory, said it's no surprise a lot of ash remains at Novarupta. He said it will be that...

http://juneauempire.com/outdoors/2012-11-02/wind-kicks-100-year-old-volcanic-ash
Outdoors
My Turn: ACES is a bad hand

...thriving while Alaska is failing to keep up. The professional jobs such as petroleum and drilling engineers, geologists, geophysicists, air permitters, field biologists, architects, cultural resource specialists, project managers, as well as high paying...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-03-08/aces-bad-hand
Opinion

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